10-22-2016
Anybody want to talk about Dirty Cow?
Hi All,
How worried is everyone about the Dirty Cow Linux exploit? Has anybody experienced attacks yet?
From the research I've done it seems that the exploit is "reliable" (that is it works nearly every time on vulverable systems) which is not good news.
We all believe that Unix/Linux systems are so much more secure than Windows because they're not targeted in the same way.
Q: Anybody have up to date knowledge as to which distros have now been patched and which are still at risk?
Thanks,
Dennis.
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news(1) General Commands Manual news(1)
NAME
news - print news items
SYNOPSIS
[items]
DESCRIPTION
is used to keep the user informed of current events. By convention, these events are described by files in the directory
When invoked without arguments, prints the contents of all current files in most recent first, with each preceded by an appropriate header.
stores the ``currency'' time as the modification date of a file named in the user's home directory (the identity of this directory is
determined by the environment variable only files more recent than this currency time are considered ``current.''
Options
recognizes the following options:
Print all items, regardless of currency.
The stored time is not changed.
Report the names of the current items without printing their contents,
and without changing the stored time.
Report how many current items exist without printing
their names or contents, and without changing the stored time. It is useful to include such an invocation of news in
one's file, or in the system's
All other arguments are assumed to be specific news items that are to be printed.
If an interrupt is typed during the printing of a news item, printing stops and the next item is started. Another interrupt within one
second of the first causes the program to terminate.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
FILES
SEE ALSO
mail(1), profile(4), environ(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
news(1)